The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Egypt

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
226 The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell 1957 British English
389 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 1988 Brazilian Portuguese
446 Joseph and His Brothers Thomas Mann 1933 German German
624 The Histories of Herodotus Herodotus -450 Greek Ancient greek
644 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje 1992 Canadian English
815 Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne 1872 French French
857 Midaq Alley Naguib Mahfouz 1947 Egyptian Arabic
883 Thaïs Anatole France 1890 French French
1015 Justine Lawrence Durrell 1957 British English
1016 Poems Of C. P. Cavafy C. P. Cavafy 1935 Greek Greek
1066 Antony And Cleopatra William Shakespeare 1606 British English
1115 The Cairo Trilogy Naguib Mahfouz 1956 Egyptian Arabic
1218 The Egyptian Mika Waltari 1945 Finnish Finnish
1232 Children of Gebelawi Naguib Mahfouz 1959 Egyptian Arabic
1234 Woman at Point Zero Nawal El Saadawi 1975 Egyptian Arabic
1624 The Mediterranean And The Mediterranean World In The Age Of Philip Ii Fernand Braudel 1949 French French
1845 Drifting Cities Stratis Tsirkas 1960 Greek Greek
1864 The Jewish War Flavius Josephus 75 Jewish Greek
1948 The Jewel Of Seven Stars Bram Stoker 1903 British English
2031 Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt 1845 German German
2031 The History Of Rome Theodor Mommsen 1854 German German
2051 Palace Walk Naguib Mahfouz 1956 Egyptian Arabic
2493 Miramar Naguib Mahfouz 1967 Egyptian Arabic
2559 Pharaoh Bolesław Prus 1895 Polish Polish
2815 The Gnostic Gospels Elaine Pagels 1979 American English
3185 Eothen Alexander William Kinglake 1844 British English
3196 The Gospel Of Thomas Marvin W. Meyer 100 Unknown English
3249 Death On The Nile Agatha Christie 1937 British English
3379 Zadig Voltaire 1747 French French
3638 The Tomb Of Tutankhamun Howard Carter 1954 British English
3638 Gods, Graves, And Scholars C. W. Ceram 1949 German German
3638 The Bible As History Werner Keller 1955 German German
3638 History Of The Art Of Antiquity Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1762 German German
3916 Zayni Barakat Jamal al- Ghitani 1974 Egyptian Arabic
3947 Antériorité Des Civilisations Nègres Cheikh Anta Diop 1954 Senegalese French
3953 Η Χαμένη Άνοιξη Stratis Tsirkas 1946 Greek Greek
4178 Cheops J.H. Leopold 1936 Dutch Dutch
4204 The Arabian Nightmare Robert Irwin 1983 British English
4233 Iskander Louis Couperus 1920 Dutch Dutch
4392 The Winds Of War Herman Wouk 1971 American English
4403 Fortunes Of War Olivia Manning 1960 British English
4474 Al Mawt `Ala Al Asfalt `Abd al-Rahman Abnudi 1960 Egyptian Arabic
4493 The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert 1887 French French
4834 One Of Cleopatra's Nights Théophile Gautier 1838 French French
4898 The Teachings Of Ptahhotep Ptahhotep -2400 Unknown Ancient egyptian
4898 The River War Winston Churchill 1899 British English
4954 The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1911 British English
4984 The Campaigns Of Alexander Arrian 1976 Greek Greek
5042 My First Two Thousand Years George Vierick 1928 American English
5042 Tongues Of Conscience Robert Hichens 1893 British English
5135 The Eloquent Peasant Unknown -1850 Egyptian Ancient egyptian
5369 Death Comes As The End Agatha Christie 1944 British English
5468 Meetings With Remarkable Men George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1963 Unknown Russian
5529 Africa Jiří Hanzelka, Miroslav Zikmund 1952 Czech Czech
5701 The Persian Boy Mary Renault 1972 British English
5817 Helen Euripides -412 Greek Ancient greek
5913 Egyptian Book Of The Dead Unknown -1550 Egyptian Egyptian (hieroglyphic)
5968 The Life Of Ismail Ferik Pasha Rea Galanaki 1989 Greek Greek
5979 The Open Door Latifa Zayyat 1960 Egyptian Arabic
6204 The Moon In The Cloud Rosemary Harris 1968 British English
6340 Kriminalgeschichte Des Christentums Karlheinz Deschner 1986 German German
6363 Moon Tiger Penelope Lively 1987 British English
6379 An Essay On Universal History, The Manners, And Spirit Of Nations Voltaire 1756 French French
6441 Mystical Dimensions Of Islam Annemarie Schimmel 1975 Unknown English
6491 Moses, Man Of The Mountain Zora Neale Hurston 1939 American English
6619 Zone Mathias Enard 2008 French French
7215 Alexandrian Songs Mikhail Kuzmin 1906 Russian Russian
7215 An Egyptian Childhood Taha Husayn 1929 Egyptian Arabic
7684 A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark 2021 American English
7966 Balthazar Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
7966 Mountolive Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
8022 Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer 1983 American English
8075 The Map Of Love Ahdaf Soueif 1999 Egyptian English
8075 The White Nile Alan Moorehead 1960 British English
8075 Clea Lawrence Durrell 1960 British English
8092 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
8155 Crocodile On The Sandbank Elizabeth Peters 1975 American English
8162 To Catch A Bride Anne Gracie 2009 Australian English
8386 Poems Of Edmond Jabès Edmond Jabès 1959 French French
8591 The Adventures Of Tintin Hergé 1929 Belgian French
8639 Water Marq de Villiers 2000 Canadian English
8712 Dark Star Safari Paul Theroux 2002 American English
8742 The Key To Rebecca Ken Follett 1980 British English
8747 The Creation Of Patriarchy Gerda Lerner 1986 American English
8939 Letters From Egypt Florence Nightingale 1987 British English
9069 Cleopatra Stacy Schiff 2010 Egyptian English
9089 River God Wilbur Smith 1993 South African English
9258 Malcolm X Manning Marable 2011 American English
9274 The Balkan Trilogy Olivia Manning 1960 British English
9347 That Smell Sonallah Ibrahim 1966 Egyptian Arabic
9705 Society And The Holy In Late Antiquity Peter Brown 1982 British English
9832 Fountain And Tomb Naguib Mahfouz 1975 Egyptian Arabic
9855 The Red Tent Anita Diamant 1997 American English
10012 The Zafarani Files Jamal al- Ghitani 1976 Egyptian Arabic
10086 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10118 Dogstar Rising Parker Bilal 2013 Egyptian English
10286 I Was Born There, I Was Born Here Mourid Barghouti 2011 Palestinian Arabic
10437 Two Women In One Nawal El Saadawi 1975 Egyptian Arabic
10448 Churchill Andrew Roberts 2018 British English
10864 Down The Nile Rosemary Mahoney 2007 American English
10883 Architecture For The Poor Hassan Fathy 1973 Egyptian English
11161 The Creators Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 American English
11250 Distant View Of A Minaret Alifa Rifaat 1983 Egyptian Arabic
11330 Memoirs From The Women’s Prison Nawal El Saadawi 1983 Egyptian Arabic
11339 A Bridge Through Time Laila Abou-Saif 1984 Egyptian Unknown
11339 Best Loved Folktales Of The World Joanna Cole 1982 Unknown English
11360 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11406 The Egyptian, Syrian, And Iraqi Revolutions Hanna Batatu 1984 American Unknown
11479 The Darkening Age Catherine Nixey 2017 British English
11602 One Hundred Poems By Cavafy Cavafy Greek Greek
11610 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11618 A Border Passage Leila Ahmed 1999 Unknown English
11634 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11660 Thirteen Days In September Lawrence Wright 2014 American English
11660 Years Of Upheaval Henry A. Kissinger 1982 American English
11842 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
11851 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
12103 Sword Of Honour Evelyn Waugh 1965 British English
12122 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English